Against a background of rapid company growth, Volkswagen Financial Services planned to consolidate from two locations into a single new building. AMA conducted space utilisation studies of their current space, and interviewed departmental representatives to establish current working styles, required adjacencies, predicted growth patterns and potential for developing new ways of working.
AMA’s recommendations included both short-term solutions to ease the pressures in their current buildings caused by rapid growth, and longer-term suggestions for the company as a whole as it planned its move into the new building. These incorporated suggestions for changes in workstyles, ways of developing flexible working, introducing informal meeting and collaborative space to better reflect the way the company works, and notional space budgets for the new building’s fit out.
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